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A8
news
Sunday Guardian www.guardian.co.tt July 14, 2013
SHASTRI BOODAN
Former COP councillor Wasim
Daniel has jumped ship to join Jack
Warner s ILP party.
Daniel, the councillor for Petit Val-
ley/Cocorite which falls under the
Diego Martin Regional Corporation,
appeared on Jack Warner s platform
at Frederick Settlement, Caroni, on
Friday night flashing a brown envelope
that he said contained his resignation
papers from the COP.
Daniel was introduced to the audi-
ence by Warner as one of the "green
surprises" for the night. Daniel said
he was fed up of the neglect of the
people of Diego Martin. He praised
Warner for the tremendous work done
during the flooding disaster last year.
Daniel later said in an interview
that he had not discussed the matter
with the COP or its leadership. He
said he decided it was time for him
to move on. "I feel hurt and disre-
spected as a member of the COP, take
that now..."
SHALIZA HASSANALI
Food Production Minister
Devant Maharaj yesterday
promised to resign if Jack
Warner can prove that
employees from his ministry
have been working at the
UNC s campaign office for
Chaguanas West candidate
Khadijah Ameen.
Maharaj said he would ten-
der his resignation forthwith
if Warner can validate claims
made recently that throngs of
workers from his ministry, paid
by taxpayers, are working in
Ameen s UNC campaign office.
He said Warner, the interim
leader of the Independent Lib-
eral Party was desperate and
was not speaking the truth.
"I am willing to resign
immediately and even appear
before a commission to defend
myself. There are no public
officers working there."
Maharaj said what Warner
has been seeing "is my per-
sonal assistant who is the
youth officer of the UNC, who
is involved in the campaign.
Warner is really inventing
things."
Maharaj described Warner
as being confused.
Food Production Minister
Devant Maharaj says Jack Warn-
er should come clean and name
the other people who make up
the Independent Liberal Party s
(IPL) executive.
He was speaking with the
media on Friday during a walk in
Caroni Village, Caroni, with
Khadijah Ameen, the UNC
Chaguanas West candidate for
the July 29 by-election.
Maharaj said people are being
asked to support Warner and there
is no party structure. "There is a
leader. Who is the deputy political
leader? Is Ms Indra Maharaj-
Jaggessar, Mr Warner s deputy?
People must ask these questions.
Who is the party s treasurer, chair-
man and executive?"
Maharaj said Warner has
called for a debate with Ameen,
but he has failed to appear before
several football inquiries to clear
his own name. "He lacks the
moral authority to ask anyone
to debate him."
Maharaj accused Warner of
using state resources to create a
dependency syndrome. He said
Warner distributed several state
grants under the pretext that it
was coming from his own funds.
"He knew what he was doing
for the past two years. Using and
abusing the Government...to make
it appear that he gave from his
own pocket."
'My party is gaining grounds'
Warner yesterday refused to
answer Maharaj s questions.
"I will not answer Devant
Maharaj on what he has said about
the ILP, our party. When Devant
Maharaj was a racial nobody, I
took him from nowhere and gave
him the post of chairman and I
built him up. Let him attack me,
let him organise blogs against me.
I say to Devant Maharaj that all
of this will pass."
Warner said the ILP was gaining
grounds, and over 30,000 people
have joined the party. (SB)
Food Production Minister
Devant Maharaj has denied that
intern Virmala Balkaran quit
her job at his ministry as a
result of political victimisation.
Maharaj said this was the sec-
ond time in two weeks Balkaran
had resigned while working at
his ministry.
Her first resignation, Maharaj
said, was "about two weeks ago."
The second resignation was
July 11.
At a political meeting in
Caroni on Friday, Jack Warner
said Balkaran had to resign
because of her political affiliation
with the Independent Liberal
Party (ILP).
Warner said Balkaran was
appointed interim youth officer
of the ILP. He said because of
her support for the IPL, she was
forced to quit.
Yesterday, Maharaj said Balka-
ran can say what she wants.
"People resign all the time."
As a law student, Maharaj said
Balkaran was assigned to the
legal department at the ministry
and then she worked at the land
division to deal with legal mat-
ters of leases.
Maharaj said he was not aware
of Balkaran s political affiliation.
"I don t know if she has
resigned because of politics."
Maharaj said Balkaran was "a
non entity in politics."
A message left on Balkaran s
phone yesterday was not
returned. (SH)
Lovers of Sugar Aloes and The
Original De Fosto were given a spe-
cial treat on Friday night when they
attended Jack Warner s public meet-
ing at Frederick Settlement Recre-
ation Ground, Caroni. Aloes strutted
on stage to sing to Jack.
He was cheered on by supporters
of the ILP from Enterprise and Point
Fortin who rushed to the stage to
dance.
Dressed in olive green, Aloes dished
out his offering and left the stage as
quickly as he appeared, waving to
Warner and the head table on his exit.
De Fosto appeared in a darker shade
of green and was accompanied by
dancers to sing his offering of Jack
the Conqueror. De Fosto shook Warn-
er s hand as fireworks erupted in the
night s sky.
COP councillor jumps ship
Sugar Aloes, De Fosto sing for Jack
Calypso bard Sugar Aloes sings during the
public meeting of Jack Warner's Indepedent
Liberal Party at the Frederick Settlement,
Caroni, last night. PHOTO: SHASTRI BOODAN
Independent
Liberal Party
leader Jack
Warner embraces
former Congress
of the People
councillor in the
Diego Martin
Regional
Corporation
Wasim Daniel,
who pledged his
allegiance to the
ILP at a meeting
in Frederick
Settlement,
Caroni, on Friday
night. Daniel is the
third councillor
from the People's
Partnership
Government to
side with Warner
in the run-up to
the Chaguanas
West by-election.
PHOTO: ADRIAN
BOODAN
'No ministry employees
at Ameen's office'
...let Jack name ILP executive
Devant denies political victimisation
Devant
Maharaj